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Philip-J-Fry 2 hours ago

Mullvad is great for privacy. But it's blocked by pretty much every VPN block list. NordVPN at the very least bypasses all the ones I regularly encounter.

I do use Mullvad for most web browsing though. But Imgur for example is blocked on it, and it's blocked in the UK, so I need NordVPN if I want to see any images there.

Most people's VPN usage is literally just geolocation restrictions and Nord is really good at that.

Ylpertnodi 16 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I regularly go to imgur via mullvad, exit Netherlands.

Gander5739 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Aren't proxies good enough for that purpose?

oarsinsync 18 minutes ago | parent [-]

The user experience differs for proxies.

System wide proxy configuration doesn’t actually always work system wide.

A VPN tends to have more success in encapsulating all application traffic (or all desired application traffic, if you’re so inclined to configure your system)